creativity

Friday 28th July 2017 I had a nightmare last night. I dreamt that I’d taken so long with the edits that I got dropped by my agent. This wasn’t helped by the fact that when I launched Facebook after I woke, I found today was the two year anniversary of my contract arriving. I’ve not [...]

I’ll be honest… the writing 2016 is off to a slow start. Part of it is simply being busy on other things but a significant chunk is that after writing 600,000 words in 2015, my brain needs to recharge. […]

One of my friends recently remarked how they suffered from ‘artistic impotence’. I blame being around creators of all sorts over the SFX Weekender, but it still got me slightly riled. For the record, I don’t consider this friend an idiot (though I might tell him otherwise to his face just for shits and giggles). [...]

Procrastination can be very frustrating. You have a mountain of work to do, you've cleared the time to actually be able to do it, and suddenly you can't think about your novel for wanting to dig that old DVD box set out and watch. One of the most important things I've learned as a writer [...]